Scenes from my morning walks

This is a shrine on one of my walking routes.  It gets too boring to keep walking in circles on a track so I walk around the neighborhood.  One morning when I walked past, I saw some students sitting on the ground inside the shrine.  I went in to take a closer look and found that it was an art class.  The students were on a field trip to draw pictures of the shrine.  I was impressed by some of their drawings.

 This is on a bridge over a river that flows out to the bay.  On the left there are rows of built in benches for people to sit.  Of all the times I passed here, I've only seen couple people sitting down there.  Kind of wonder if there are special events that occur on the river that attract people to come out and watch.  There is a path along the bank at the base of the benches that goes underneath the bridges.  I use it to avoid having to cross the busy roads above.